Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet Llewelyn felt the forces of heaven moving him , and aligned himself with them boldly , going without hesitation where they carried him . |
| 2 | When the olive-skinned Valentino was seen kidnapping a white girl and taking her to his tent where he seduced her , cinema audiences were treated to a franker exposé of naked lust on the screen than they had ever seen before . |
| 3 | Three hooded gunmen wearing Lebanese Army fatigues entered his apartment where they killed him , his wife and their two small sons . |
| 4 | All the more pity , therefore , that , in his sweeping dismissals of British cinema where there seemed nothing to praise beyond Humphrey Jennings ' poetic documentaries , he refused any engagement with the darker elements in the native cinematic culture . |
| 5 | He held a hand to his chest where he carried his brother 's memory . |
| 6 | The stories grew more inflamed with the telling and witnesses were about equally divided as to whether Beatrice encouraged Modi to debauchery or he provoked her . |
| 7 | said I 've got to get this one back for her mum or whatever said I 'm in a hurry then I met some guy on the field , talking to him and er |
| 8 | To read Mrs McDermott 's vivid recollection of those final precious moments when she spoke to her son and tidied his hair before he ran off to play in Ormeau Park where he met his killer would melt the hardest of hearts . |
| 9 | David Riley at the council park where he broke his arm Picture : CLIFF BRETT |
| 10 | Leavis 's reputation as a crabbed stylist and boldly innovative thinker who had been rejected by a university where he spent his entire life was largely a figment of his own mind , and so much of his post-war life was devoted to mythologising his own career that it is difficult , by now , to recognise what a conventional figure in his place and day he always was . |
| 11 | He was educated at Bowmore school and Glasgow University where he obtained his M.A. in 1863 and was made a Doctor of Divinity in 1891 . |
| 12 | She was born in Aberdeen and was a student at the city 's university where she gained her MA in 1969 . |
| 13 | Those already enrolled in the NetWare Update Programme or who bought their NetWare under the Premium promotion will automatically get NetWare 4.0 when it ships March 31 . |
| 14 | Paul claimed he only joined the Normanby Road Methodist Church for the youth club where he began his entertainment career . |
| 15 | It was at , it was at the place where the football where you got us a grant playing with those little scum . |
| 16 | At the age of 9 , he was sent to the London Institution where he excelled himself so much that when the school 's Margate branch was opened in 1875 , the headmaster , Dr. Elliott , appointed him one of the first pupil-teachers , promoting him three years later to a junior teachership . |
| 17 | Brucan 's reference to the benefits of abandoning the ‘ idiocy of rural life ’ was the typical presumption of a Marxist intellectual that he knew what was best for the benighted peasant . |
| 18 | As has been suggested , it was particularly the perceived threat to the importance of organised religion that they represented which galvanized Mrs Whitehouse and others into action . |
| 19 | Tallis was prompted by this insult into an action that she knew she would regret . |
| 20 | Saint Basil was so enchanted by this selfless action that he concluded his comments with the words ‘ If things seen are so lovely , what must things unseen be ? ’ |
| 21 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 22 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 23 | I did n't want John thinking that I said he would get her one . |
| 24 | This is because this was the dead stock that we sent him . |
| 25 | He said it with such heartfelt force that I believed him . |
| 26 | Among them , the suggestion that during surgery her head was n't properly supported , or that a surgical hammer used in the operation was applied with so much force that it damaged her spinal cord . |
| 27 | The Church appeared no longer to be the guiding force that she believed it once had been , and felt it ought still to be . |
| 28 | ‘ It was n't until he produced the ring that I took him seriously . ’ |
| 29 | Panic-struck once she saw her mistake she immediately confronted Bernard with the truth , apologized and offered her resignation . |
| 30 | In a letter addressed ‘ Dear Boris ’ and signed ‘ Yours John ’ Mr Major told the Russian president that he supported his emphasis on ‘ controlling inflation , completing land reform and helping … businesses ’ . |